If you could choose, which job would it be: Supermodel or lawyer?

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Wilsoncw1997

well, I'm a dude, so I can't really be a super model unless I was built like schwartenegger and had a great face to match
...but I could be a "thupermodel" I guess? is that a thing? I'm not gay but I could pretend to be for the money
I actually went to law school this year, weirdly enough, but I hated it so I'm not doing it next year

your genes play a role, but if you could would you be?

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Alfissti

I shall be that lawyer that sues the supermodel :smile:

Reply 22

zippity.doodah

Original post by Wilsoncw1997

your genes play a role, but if you could would you be?

if I could get paid for standing around and looking good while having pictures taken of me, I'd much rather do that than be a lawyer - being a super model could trampoline me into the porn industry too, and getting paid that way is more ideal than either of the other two

why not both?

Original post by Richard Dawkins

And your point is?

A model is still selling their body as does a prostitute.

Not really.

Model. I'd rather not do a really stressful career

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Ndella

Lawyer because I hate being the centre of attention.

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Illiberal Liberal

'Law-Hopeful' here but I'd choose supermodel. Then convert to law after the twilight of my modelling career.

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ArtGoblin

Supermodel, definitely. I'd want to be like Kate Moss and spend my youth going to parties, then I'd marry Alex Turner when I was ready to settle down. I don't think being a lawyer is a particularly impressive career anyway. Being a supermodel would be more fun and you get to retire really young.

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slg60

Original post by Wilsoncw1997

If you could be a supermodel, you could be very famous and have many dates from rich people. However your glory days would be short 10-15 years.

if you are a lawyer, you have a stable job and would last we'll into your 60s. But at the sametime, you won't be very well known by the public.

Some supermodels have much longer careers Naiomi Cambell's is about 30 years and will last longer.

Reply 29

slg60

Original post by nohomo

Supermodel. You'd probably make more in your career. You'd just have to be careful to save it. Plus 10-15 years as a model is better than rotting away as a lawyer for years, and only retiring very late. Boring boring boring, to me.

You as a male would not make as much, unless you were David Gandy, and there is no other male in his league in terms of money.

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Lyrical Prodigy

I plan to be a lawyer anyway so no debate there.

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slg60

Original post by Wilsoncw1997

How super is the supermodel is it Gisele Bündchen super, or say Caronline Wineburg?

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nohomo

Original post by Lyrical Prodigy

I plan to be a lawyer anyway so no debate there.

Is that not because lawyer is a far more attainable career than model?

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nohomo

Original post by slg60

You as a male would not make as much, unless you were David Gandy, and there is no other male in his league in terms of money.

Could you not still make more than a lawyer?

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slg60

Original post by nohomo

Could you not still make more than a lawyer?

depends how good a lawyer I guess, there is not really any sources on how much they are worth but Chris Fawcett has a tiny house :wink:

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Chicken.M.

definately a supermodel.

I'd pick a very large number of jobs over lawyer tbh.

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Lyrical Prodigy

Original post by nohomo

Is that not because lawyer is a far more attainable career than model?

Erm no. Why is me preferring to be a lawyer to a model seemingly bothering you?

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nohomo

Original post by Lyrical Prodigy

Erm no. Why is me preferring to be a lawyer to a model seemingly bothering you?

It's not bothering me. I think it's fine. It's probably for the best, considering how hard it is to be a model. It not only takes a pretty appearance, but a lot of luck.

Have you had any offers to be a model? If so, you should have said.

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Lyrical Prodigy

Original post by nohomo

It's not bothering me. I think it's fine. It's probably for the best, considerIng how hard it is to be a model. It not only takes a pretty appearance, but a lot of luck.

Have you had any offers to be a model? If so, you should have said.

So because I'd rather be a lawyer than a supermodel hence the fact that I want to be a lawyer anyway It provokes you to respond with such sarcasm implying the fact that 'I can't be a supermodel anyway even if I wanted to'? Nice one mate, I forgot that you know me irl.

Reply 39

nohomo

Original post by Lyrical Prodigy

Can I just ask everyone else if they thought I was being offensive?

I simply asked, when you said you planned to be a lawyer anyway, whether you would prefer to be a supermodel given the choice.

Given that I don't know you in real life and you don't appear to have been headhunted (or you'd presumably have said), I think it's reasonable to question whether you could be a supermodel based on looks, since it's statistically unlikely to me given I know nothing about you, and also, even if you did have the looks, it'd be highly unlikely that you could be a model anyway because there's a big luck factor.

Based on this, there is one lawyer for every 401 people in the UK, and given that you probably come from an advantaged background (even if you go to a state school, you have internet access etc) which is a small pool to choose the lawyers in the UK from, and very few in this group want to be a lawyer, your odds of becoming a lawyer if that's what you want are very high.

Loads more people want to be models than lawyers, and how many of them make it compared to the numbers making it as lawyers? The poll here suggests otherwise, but this is an academic forum etc.

But how many people are model material really, even before we get to luck?

I know at least 10-20 lawyers who I grew up with and knew well, and one model, but I didn't know her that well as she was much younger than me, and she's not a supermodel (she's really pretty but models only on about the Argos model level).

Post a picture if you'd like to prove you have the looks.